Course details

Name: ENGL - 325

Title: AMERICAN POETRY: WWII-PRESENT

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2019

Credits: 3

Description:
The poetry of the present comes After. After the great syntheses of the High Moderns—Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Stein. After the devastations of war and Auschwitz and Hiroshima. "After such knowledge," as T.S. Eliot asked, "what forgiveness?"

This course will introduce you to a representative sampling of important work done by American poets after WWII, including poems by Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, and others. Our close attention to forms, modes and themes of American poetry in the last half-century will enable us to see the poetry of the present, in all its variety, for all its originality and innovation, as deeply continuous with the poetry of the past.

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 11:30 am To 12:45 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Poetry)
• Post-1900 (1d)

Teaching Faculty: Robbins Michael (robbinsm)

Is course canceled: No